Yeah, sure, we all read the blurbs on the back covers of books. But do those really tell us what we want to know? I, C.J., have taken it upon myself to reveal the truth about a number of popular books. And yes, this is going to be highly sarcastic, and also these are all books that I enjoy, so don’t @ me with “you’re so mean!” because I will chuckle. (For more extensive honesty, check out my Book Breakdowns on instagram.)
Originally posted on www.sarcasmandlemons.com
spin the dawn BY ELIZABETH LIM
If the contestants in Project Runway were risking death for failure, and also there are fairy tales
a blade so black BY L.L. MCKINNEY
Black Alice kicks ass and has unresolved sexual tension with the Mad Hatter
wilder girls BY RORY POWER
If 28 Days had a baby with a cute New England boarding school and made everyone want to throw up
the beautiful BY RENEE AHDIEH
The Vampire Lestat gets sucked into YA and hangs out in secret clubs
six of crows BY LEIGH BARDUGO
Six criminal misfits make very bad decisions and do unspeakable things to eyeballs
caraval BY STEPHANIE GARBER
Being kidnapped is fine because you get to play deadly games in pretty dresses
when dimple met rishi BY SANDHYA MENON
In which bad things happen to good Starbucks drinks, or
Arranged marriage at nerd camp
wicked saints BY EMILY DUNCAN
The Grisha saga if it were written in a bloodier world about only terrible people
a curse so dark and lonely BY BRIGID KEMMERER
If Beauty was a hotheaded teen girl and the Beast was an angsty angst pants
and i darken BY KIERSTEN WHITE
Vlad the impaler, only female and somehow scarier
wintersong BY S. JAE-JONES
All your inexplicably sexual childhood feelings for Jareth from Labyrinth come back to haunt you in 18th century Germany
the fault in our stars BY JOHN GREEN
Crying and Amsterdam
red rising BY PIERCE BROWN
Sci-fi Harry Potter if everyone at Hogwarts had to murder each other
the magicians BY LEV GROSSMAN
Harry Potter except written by Bret Easton Ellis, or
Bored grad students with magic
the devouring gray BY CHRISTINE L. HERMAN
Supernatural the CW show in a small town, except everyone is bisexual
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